Last year one of the most interesting movies to come out was Annihilation. The movie had audiences talking for a variety of reasons besides the plot. One of those was the subversion of gender norms. The main cast were mostly women in a plot which would usually be populated by men. It also had quite a diverse cast which also buck science fiction tropes which usually has characters, if they’re human, be mostly comprised of white men.

The movie revolved around a scientist whose husband barely makes it back alive from an expedition and she goes searching for what almost killed him.  What she and her team end up uncovering changes everything they know about evolution. The movie gave viewers another worthy extinction level event movie in the pantheon of great science fiction movies.

In Ian Sharman and Hakan Aydin’s, The Lady & The Lost World, we find another female protagonist who must uncover the truth, one that will change everything she knows.

We meet Lady Emmaline Harcourt, a royal, whose fiancé had disappeared during an expedition, five years ago, as she desperately looks for any clue of where he was or could have disappeared to. She meets a man by the name of Trent Bridgstock, who has given her, the first real lead she has had in a long time, as he presents to her, that her fiancé was looking for a map of how the world would have been 20,000 years ago. which gains her new enemies, one that would want her dead before what the map leads to, becomes known. As his trail leads her and Trent from Mexico to Cambodia to Egypt and finally Antarctica, while along the way, changing what she knows about history and culture about these different civilizations.

Overall, the comic is a thrilling adventure which tells quite a different story than most readers would expect. The story by Sharman is smart, fast paced, and action packed. The art by Aydin and Romero is elaborate, contains excellent line work, and is simply breathtaking. Altogether, not your typical adventure story but one that gives readers a fresh take on the action adventure genre.

Story: Ian Sharman Art: Hakan Aydin and Loles Romero
Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy